Because they are selfish folks that only care about their ancient rituals and beliefs. In my opinion, they are just showing how incompetent and useless to this world that they really are. Its CLEAR to see that these are endangered species.. yet they continue to kill. This may seem harsh, but i hope the japanes single-handedly destroy the whales so this way the world knows exactly what kind of people they are.. driving things to extinction. Not to mention that, but what will the japs do once there "sacred" whale meat is whiped off the face of the earth.. and THEY caused it.. Hopefully they will all just commit suicide or something. Idk, guess im a radical or something.